Am I writing / running KAREL the hardway?

I have a computer science background and I'm working on an interdisciplinary robotics project. Fanuc is my 2nd taste of robotics after having worked with Universal Robots.

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I wrote this which outlines how I created a hello world KAREL program using a CRX-20iA/L controller on ROBOGUIDE V9.40274 with Windows11.

It was a huge pain and I want to know, am I doing it the hard way?

I plan to write a server / client socket implementation in the future where the robot is acting as a server executing move commands sent from a Python client and I fear this is my fate for the next few weeks.

I'm with a team supporting an open source testing platform designed to assist businesses with things like Q/A, R&D and maintenance. We're writing programs that interface with tools, like robots, which will abstract away programming aspects for operators.

I've made motion servers for other manufactures in a similar way and I've been asked to attempt it with Fanuc.

Thank you for the response. I see Remote Motion (R912) listed in Robot Options within ROBOGUIDE. I have access to the related manual and I'll spend some time looking into this today.

Wanted to report that I was able to accomplish what I set out to do strictly with KAREL and Python.

This GUI interacts with a Python script. The script sends a message to a KAREL server. The KAREL server parses the message then moves the robot contingent on it's payload.